Abstract
This is the report of the fifth biennial seminar conducted by the Institute. The format and organisation of this seminar was similar to those conducted in past years - participants presented twenty minute summaries of their research topics paying particular attention to methodological issues. An addition to past years was a commentary on each days proceedings given by Dr Ken Polk from the Department of Criminology at Melbourne University.
Contents
- Introduction: Review of Australian criminological research, 1987
Paul Wilson - Welcome address
David Biles
Summaries of papers
- Exploring violence at sporting events: research in Bathurst
Arthur Veno and Elizabeth Veno - Victorian occupational health and safety legislation: an examination of law in transition
Kit Carson - Crime perception and victimisation of inner city residents
John Minnery - Public perception of sentencing in Perth, Western Australia
David Indermaur - Rape: a four year police study of victims
Kelly Weekley and Mark Pathe - Evaluating sexual assault law reform in New South Wales
Roseanne Bonney - Some methodological issues in suicide research in Australia
Riaz Hassan - CINCH: a key element in Australian criminological research
John Myrtle - Class, culture and crime and the new social state of Australian youth
Mike Presdee - Responsibility and punishment as issues in adolescents' conceptions of delinquency
Michael Siegal - The use of imprisonment by Victorian magistrates
Ken Polk and David Tait - The 'prostitute' and the 'wayward' child: children's construction of their involvement in the children's court process
Ian O'Connor - Are Aborigines discriminated against or merely disadvantaged by the juvenile justice system?
Fay Gale and Joy Wundersitz - Juvenile justice and the female status offender: a South Australian study
Ngaire Naffine and Becky Bailey-Harris - Evaluation of the Employment Access Program (an affirmative employment program for young offenders and institutionalised youth)
Jenny Pitts - Strategies and typologies of research
Ronald Francis - Hypnotically refreshed testimony
Kevin McConkey - The Victorian sex offending population: a socio-demographic survey
Janelle Morgan, Stephen Knightbridge, Peter Akalyi and Kim Ng - Prison officers as workers
Ray Myers - Bail reform in South Australia
Julie Gardner - The New South Wales Release on Licence Program 1982-83: methodology of a case study
Janet Chan - Research within Fairlea Women's Prison
Paula Kelly - Research within Fairlea Women's Prison
Kaylene - Face-to-face research in penal institutions: methodological problems
Joachim Kersten - Evaluation of the Special Care Unit
Don Porritt - Diversionary impact of community-based corrections programs
Stuart Ross - Evaluation of pre-release methadone program: work in progress
Angela Gorta - Drugs and crime - phases II and III
Ian Dobinson - Decline of the Barber Surgeons: the emergence of the police profession?
Gerry McGrath and Alice McGrath - The development of highway and traffic engineering subjects as part of the Associate Diploma in Police Studies at Chisholm Institute of Technology
Robert Smith - Traffic engineering qualifications for the Victoria Police
Keith Solomon - The longitudinal study of (Qld) police health and quality of work life: why longitudinal?
Christine Lidgard and Noel Bates - Qualitative action research - an alternative approach in Aboriginal/police relations
Lynn Roberts - Police rule-making and the regulation of firearms in Australia
David Fine - Providing an economic context for longitudinal research of deviant careers
Garry Coventry - Range and principle effects in sentence appeals
Don Weatherburn - Riots at the Bathurst motorcycle races
Chris Cunneen - Comments/Conclusions
Ken Polk - Appendix A. Names and addresses of participants
- Appendix B. Evaluation of the seminar